Friday, December 10, 2010

Local Hero

Readers of this blog know how self-satisfied I get when I find that someone I respect agrees with me. You'd think at this advanced age I wouldn't need such validation. At any rate, reading The Bleat this morning, as I do every Mon.-Fri. morning, I find that James Lileks agrees with me on the wonders of Local Hero. I took my wife to see it on one of our first dates and it's always stuck with me. It's the story of a successful....er, wait a minute. Let me check something....

Okay, back. I guess I'm getting to the point in this blog where I start repeating myself. It occurred to me mid-sentence above that I've already blogged about how much I love the movie. Not much more to add, except that, if you love movie magic, that mystical, bewitching, feeling only a great movie can provide, see Local Hero. One of Lileks' commenters states:
I think there are two kinds of people in the world: those who watch the final scene of Local Hero and either think “I don’t get it” or “that’s nice,” and those who almost gasp at the emotional impact of seeing a phone booth in a small Scottish fishing village, hearing the ring of the phone, and >get it<.

Here is that marvelous final scene, along with the 2:26 moment that Lileks describes (though it arrives at the 2:16 mark in this video):

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